Clues for the word "WEED"
We've had 182 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 426 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 28, 2026.
Definition of weed
- n. - A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
- n. - An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
- n. - A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
- n. - Underbrush; low shrubs.
- n. - Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
- n. - Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- n. - An animal unfit to breed from.
- n. - Tobacco, or a cigar.
- v. t. - To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
- v. t. - To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
- v. t. - To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
- v. t. - To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Referring Clues
- Gardener's problem
- Garden crasher
- Lawn eyesore
- Herbicide's target
- Herbicide target
- Cig
- It's often rooted out
- Nut sedge, e.g.
- Crab grass, e.g.
- Garden intruder
- Narc's target
- Work in the garden
- Garden invader
- Lawn intruder
- Marijuana
- Thistle, e.g.
- Dandelion or goldenrod, e.g.
- Dandelion, e.g.
- Unwanted flora
- Hippie's illicit purchase
- No prized plant
- Flower bed bane
- Plantain, for one
- Hoe target
- Too-hardy plant, often
- Lawn-party crasher?
- Nursery intruder
- Battle the crabgrass, e.g.
- Gardener's bane
- Get rid of, with "out"
- Exemplar of rapid growth
- Whacked plant
- Unwelcome growth
- Dandelion, for one
- Unwanted garden growth
- Pot
- Marijuana, slangily
- Dime bag contents
- Mike's pal in "For Better or for Worse"
- Kudzu, e.g.
- It may be pulled
- Do some gardening
- Unwanted lawn growth
- Lawn invader
- Unwanted lawn plant
- Hoe's target
- Garden nuisance
- Dandelion, to most
- Unwanted plant
- Yank crabgrass
- Botanical outcast
- Stoner's stash
- Shepherd's purse, e.g.
- Unvalued growth
- Tend to the garden
- Herbicide victim
- Clean the bed?
- It gets whacked
- It may be whacked-out in your yard
- Gardener's nemesis
- Dandelion, usually
- Garden trespasser
- Garden annoyance
- Crabgrass, e.g.
- Pull up dandelions
- Grower's bane
- Unwanted growth
- Unwanted 36-Across
- Thistle or goldenrod
- Garden pest
- Dandelion, to gardeners
- Papyrus
- Pesky plant
- Shepherd's-purse, e.g.
- Doobage
- Pig ______
- Wild oat, for one
- Goldenrod, e.g.
- Whacker's target
- Hoe target
- Rooted-out plant
- Do some garden work
- Work on a bed
- Lawn uglifier
- Marijuana, informally
- Dandelion or crabgrass
- Something rooted out
- Joint filler
- Unwanted sprout
- Do gardening
- Unwanted garden plant
- Pull up dandelions and crab grass
- Invasive plant
- Bane in a bed
- Do some yard work
- Tidy the garden
- Garden eyesore
- Sess
- An unloved plant
- Lawn problem
- Marijuana, in slang
- Garden bane
- Location-dependent plant designation
- Dandelion, to many
- Winnow (out)
- Intruder to the landscaping
- Wacky tobacky, in part
- Victim of a gardener's hoe
- Whacker victim
- Tidy the garden, in a way
- Tidy a garden
- Plant a gardener dislikes
- Gardener's least favorite plant
- Plant that gardeners dislike
- Stash stuff
- Bud
- Nettle, eg
- Unwelcome plant
- Woodstock herb?
- Jim Stafford "Wildwood ___"
- Plant growing in the wrong place!
- Marijuana (slang)
- Plant growing where it is not wanted
- A diminutive figure, but growing
- We edit it out as something unwanted
- There's a little sad ending when the gardener kills it
- Not the gardener's favourite little number
- Said you and I would help with the gardening
- Unwanted plant - cannabis?
- Wherewithal to get stoned or pissed?
- Wimp relieved himself?
- Plant, being little, died
- Wet pot
- Wacky baccy went down the toilet?
- Joint stock?
- Rag tag?
- Little daughter is not wanted in the garden
- Urinated in dock, say
- Wield a hoe, say
- Roots of sow thistle are dedicated gardener's enemy
- Word that can follow "rag" or "tumble"
- Sow thistle, for one
- Scrawny person with a small figure
- Hoe
- Invader from below
- Plant that may be pulled
- Yard intruder
- Underground invader
- Weak character removed from the plot
- Plant you don't want
- Plant not wanted by small daughter
- We name a feeble fellow
- Wild violet, e.g.
- Quackgrass, e.g.
- Lot growth
- Garden growth
- Obnoxious plant
- Unwanted plant in a garden
- Something you don't want in the bed
- Dispensary product
- One may be pulled out of a bed
- Tend to a garden
- We name it as groundsel, say
- Plant
- We have a name for tobacco
- Sort (through)
- A plant we name
- Do some yardwork
- Ganja
- Neaten the garden, perhaps
- Dispensary supply
- "Whacker" target
- Quack grass or crabgrass
- Plant to destroy
- Garden-invading plant
- Roundup target
- Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson ___/White Flower No. 1"
- Something pulled by a gardener
- Creeping Charlie, e.g.
- Ingredient in some brownies
- Garden interloper
- We have a name for tobacco (4)WASACOLUMNBREAKWASACOLUMNBREAK
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 30, 2025
- New York Times - December 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 27, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 25, 2025
- New York Times - July 19, 2025
- Daily American - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 25, 2025
- Daily American - June 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 14, 2025
- USA Today - February 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 30, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 17, 2024
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